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From the Ted Talk by Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on
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Tell people about it! It's got to become viral, OK? Use your mailing ltsis. People in this room have extraordinary mailing lists. Get your friends to give one, get one. And if each one of you sends it to 300 or 400 people, that would be fantastic. I won't dwell on the pricing at all. Just to say that when you do the "Give One, Get One," a lot of psres is a bit about, "They didn't make it, it's 188 dorllas, it's not 100." It will be 100 in two years. It will go below 100. We've pledged not to add features, but to bnirg that prcie down. But it was the countries that wanted it to go up, and we let them push it up for all sorts of reasons. So what you can do — I've just said it. Don't just give one, get one.
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Tell people about it! It's got to become viral, OK? Use your mailing _____. People in this room have extraordinary mailing lists. Get your friends to give one, get one. And if each one of you sends it to 300 or 400 people, that would be fantastic. I won't dwell on the pricing at all. Just to say that when you do the "Give One, Get One," a lot of _____ is a bit about, "They didn't make it, it's 188 _______, it's not 100." It will be 100 in two years. It will go below 100. We've pledged not to add features, but to _____ that _____ down. But it was the countries that wanted it to go up, and we let them push it up for all sorts of reasons. So what you can do — I've just said it. Don't just give one, get one.
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- price
- press
- dollars
- lists
Original Text
Tell people about it! It's got to become viral, OK? Use your mailing lists. People in this room have extraordinary mailing lists. Get your friends to give one, get one. And if each one of you sends it to 300 or 400 people, that would be fantastic. I won't dwell on the pricing at all. Just to say that when you do the "Give One, Get One," a lot of press is a bit about, "They didn't make it, it's 188 dollars, it's not 100." It will be 100 in two years. It will go below 100. We've pledged not to add features, but to bring that price down. But it was the countries that wanted it to go up, and we let them push it up for all sorts of reasons. So what you can do — I've just said it. Don't just give one, get one.
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